Posted by Cindylou on September 14, 2001, at 15:21:54
In reply to Re: Prozac CRASH --pdoc suggests LITHIUM?! » Cindylou, posted by pellmell on September 13, 2001, at 10:49:27
Dear PM,
Thanks so much for your response. You gave me the courage to fill the prescription and take my first dose of the Lithium. HOWEVER ...I feel so lousy today I can't continue it :(. I am the worst person when it comes to side effects; very few meds are "kind" to me.
So, on to my next trial -- Risperdal. I'll wait a few days for this Lithium to leave my system.
Thanks again for your support,
- cindy
> > I would love to hear from anyone who has tried Lithium, to see if it helped or not. I would only take about 300 mg a day, in addition to my 5 mg. Prozac and 150 mg. Wellbutrin. (I am very med sensitive, that's why the doses are so low).
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> When my first diagnosed major depressive episode was uh, diagnosed, my first pdoc (who I only saw once...there's a story there) put me on Zoloft. I worked with my second pdoc after that, working all the way up to 200mg, which as you probably know is the max recommended dose of the stuff. I still wasn't getting a good response. So my pdoc added lithium. I think the dose was one 300mg capsule in the morning and two at night with the Zoloft.
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> Anyway, three days after I started taking it my depression began to lift, and within a couple of weeks I was feeling whole again.
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> Those whose job it is to guess about these things hypothesize that lithium works farther down the cascade than the reuptake inhibitors, at the "second messenger" level (the second messenger is the message to the neuron's nucleus resulting from the interaction between a nurotransmitter and its receptor). Which is a good thing: future psychaitric meds will most likely be targeted at that level and below.
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> Anyway, lithium was just what I needed. I hope it works for you as well. Oh, one tip, which your doc probably already gave you: keep yourself hydrated. Lithium's an inorganic salt, and has a bit of a diuretic affect.
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> -pm
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